Health gap between educated and less educated Russians widens

The Gender Earnings Gap Among the Less-Educated: The Effect of Occupational Characteristics

This research focuses on the role of occupational characteristics in the occupation-specific gender earnings gap for individuals whose highest level of education is less than a four-year college degree. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET), I identify occupational characteristics that are associated with ...

The Reverse Wage Gap among Educated White and Black Women*

We find that black female nurses earn 9 percent more at the mean and median than white female nurses, even when controlling for selection into nursing employment, using the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). Typically, recent research examining the female black/white wage gap among the general population finds that the gap widens when controlling for selection. Our findin...

Job satisfaction comparison between foreign educated nurses and U.S. educated nurses

Long - Run Substitutability between More and Less Educated Workers : Evidence from U . S . States , 1950 – 1990

We estimate the aggregate long-run elasticity of substitution between more educated workers and less educated workers (the slope of the inverse demand curve for more relative to less educated workers) at the U.S. state level. Our data come from the (five) 1950–1990 decennial censuses. Our empirical approach allows for state and time fixed effects and relies on timeand state-dependent child labo...

Returns to Tenure and Experience Revisited--Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

This paper explores whether within job and between job wage growth is lower for less-educated workers. While a simple model of heterogeneous learning ability predicts that individuals with low learning ability will have flatter wage profiles, this prediction has been largely ignored in the recent welfare reform debates. The key econometric problem in estimating returns to tenure and experience ...